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Infrastructure · Archaeological Site of Knossos

Knossos

Restoration and enhancement works at the Palace and the Archaeological Site of Knossos — a new footbridge over the Vlyhia stream and an accessible route, built where builders have worked for almost nine thousand years.

Palace restorationVlyhia footbridgeAccessible route
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8,800 years, one site

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The newest layer · 2020s

Lydakis works the site, gently

Restoration and enhancement of the Palace and the Archaeological Site: a new footbridge of stone-concrete with a steel deck across the Vlyhia stream, and an accessible route so every visitor can reach the monument.

New footbridge with steel deck over the Vlyhia stream at Knossos, built by Lydakis Construction
AD 1900

Evans wakes the palace

Sir Arthur Evans begins excavating the mound of Kephala. Within weeks, a palace no one had seen for three thousand years starts coming out of the ground.

67 BC

A Roman colony

Knossos lives on as Colonia Julia Nobilis Cnossus — villas, mosaics and roads laid over the Bronze Age city by its newest builders.

c. 1450 BC

New management

Mycenaean Greeks take over the palace's administration. Clay tablets in Linear B — the earliest written Greek — record the site's inventories.

c. 1700 BC

The great palace

Rebuilt grander after an earthquake: over a thousand interlocking rooms, light-wells, the throne room, the frescoes — the labyrinth of the legend.

c. 1900 BC

The first palace

Europe's first palace rises at Knossos — a feat of planning, masonry and logistics almost four thousand years before concrete pumps.

c. 6800 BC

The first builders

Neolithic settlers raise mud-brick homes on virgin ground. Construction at Knossos has never really stopped since — and Lydakis is honored to be its newest layer.

Services
Construction
Category
Infrastructure · Public works
Location
Knossos, Heraklion, Crete
Setting
Protected archaeological site

The quietest kind of construction

Working inside a world-famous archaeological site is construction with the volume turned down: every machine movement planned, every material choice reversible in spirit, every trench a conversation with what lies beneath.

The works delivered restoration and enhancement of the Palace and the Archaeological Site of Knossos — a new footbridge of stone-concrete with a steel deck across the Vlyhia stream, and a route that lets visitors with disabilities reach a monument that was, for most of its 8,800-year life, reachable only on foot over rough ground.

For a contractor, there is no stronger reference: trusted to build at the oldest continuously built place in Europe.

Scope 01

Palace & site works

Restoration and enhancement works across the Palace and the Archaeological Site — paths, rest points and visitor infrastructure among the pines.

Scope 02

The Vlyhia footbridge

A new footbridge across the Vlyhia stream: stone-concrete structure with a steel deck — modern engineering in materials the site can live with.

Scope 03

Access for everyone

A dedicated route for people with disabilities, so the monument is no longer only for those who can walk its slopes.

On site

Drag sideways — the delivered works among the trees of Knossos

Accessible visitor route at the Archaeological Site of Knossos
Footbridge with steel deck over the Vlyhia stream at Knossos
New visitor path and guard kiosk at Knossos
Ramped accessible route beside the archaeological site fence at Knossos
Stone bench and information point on the Knossos visitor route
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